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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Dec 22 14:45:52 2004, in response to Re: Media Taking Christmas out of Christmas, posted by David of Broadway on Wed Dec 22 12:53:20 2004. My Deity cannot be worshiped in the way you might wish to worship him. Similarly, yours cannot be worshiped in the way I might wish to worship him.Perhaps, but there still is only one higher being in my understanding. Whether I worship Him wrong, or you worship Him wrong is besides the point. The truth is, there is no correct answer as to who's "right" in the way He is worshiped, at least not that any of us can actually prove. I can't say what Jewish teachings uphold is wrong any more than you can say what Christian teachings uphold is wrong. And actually, neither of us can say that Islam is defintitely wrong, any more than a Muslim can actually say we are wrong (although Islam and Buddism, and others, don't even share a common base at some point like Judism and Christianity do). At least with Christian and Jewish religions, they do share much of the same Bible, that other religions don't come close to doing. Whether one interprets it wrong or correctly is besides the point. Technically, even branches of Christianity (the reputible branches)teach different things, and interpret things differently. That doesn't make me believe that there is a "Lutheran" or "Methodist" God, in addition to a Catholic or Episcapal God, or even a Jewish higher being. Christianity IS a branch off of Judism, just like Lutheranism is a branch off of the Catholic religion. I guess none of us can really know what is correct (if either) until we die, and even then we may or may not know the answer. We could possibly be some sick science experiment gone out of control for all is possible, and none of what any human ever imagined is the "answer" may be what is the truth. And technically, what any of us hold as "truth" is basically what we were taught as a child, and what our parents taught us, and what their parents taught them, and so on. If I had grown up in a Jewish household with the same exact brain I have now, and was drilled in Judism from a child, I would probably agree with what Jewish teachings teach. And if you grew up in a Christian household, with the same brain you have now, you would be believing what Christian teachings uphold. It IS all connected to how you were raised, and what you were taught as a child, and throughout life. |
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